A region economically benefits from unified and simplified laws and regulations as well as a common currency

Makes capitalism much easier to happen

Not to mention a common language makes trade much smoother

>pure economic take
You're disregarding that you're mashing up many, many, many ethnicites into one state, which will inevitably have competing interests.

Capitalism usually brings along mutual prosperity

And the interests of Europe can best be protected if Europe were united

But some Europeans are vastly different from others. Like Greeks and Scandinavians. Where the cultures are separated and the people themselves are very different.

Couldn't culture be distinct from the law?

Regions may retain their local culture and let it naturally evolve and mix over time. There's no reason for a government or series of laws to change this

I admit the Latin part was a bit dumb, but still, unification offers more good than bad. Look at the unification of Germany under Bismarck

Those were germans though

He unified a single ethnicity

Stop pinging

Like the austrians those are germans too <:SquidDab:459545666725609493>

I doubt all Germans are ethnically identical

They've rarely ever been unified in their history, starting off as small barbaric tribes to a clusterfuck of tiny kingdoms

Yet they were still able to unify despite differences in culture and history

That’s globalism

Imperialism is the big gay

and why would you want a super eu

do you want to incoperate the retarded meds and Anglo’s?

and Slavs

Because the Roman Empire was sexy

The Germans are one "ethnic __group__". They already had the same language, religion, morality, etc. Now look at countries with multiple ethnicities in Europe: the former Yugoslavia, Spain (Catalonians and Basque want independence), UK (Scots want independence), Russia (Chechens and others want independence), etc., etc., etc.

Austro-Hungarian Empire being another obvious example

Hello

There is a natural drive to self-preservation which being interlaced with other ethnicities is counter-intuitive to.

Then Europe will remain fractured, having the many different ethnicities cooperating only within their small group identity

The people may be happier this way, sure, but they will be weak, easily dominated by a stronger foreign force

If you laud Capitalism so high, I'd assume as many do for competition breeding progress, then by the same token wouldn't a disunited Europe breed technological progress via competing tension? War, for instance, is the greatest catalyst to technology.

That's true I agree that Europe outclassed Asia in technology because of the existential pressure to advance war tech

But I don't see Europe waging war against itself now. And governments competing with each other isn't as good as corporations competing

And capitalist competition does occur in a more open market unhindered by governments

It's not like you are obligated to fight in this scenario. The US and USSR never outright warred each other, yet heaps of technology came out of the Cold War.

So would you say governments would compete to have better policies so that citizens wouldn't emigrate to neighboring governments?

i.e. Switzerland

Well, ideally, government policies would not be in favor of citizens not meeting ethnic criteria -- going back to what we were discussing before.

Granted, that's how it would work out anyway if countries were based on ethnicity in the first place, to prevent inter-ethnic tension

LIVE The Gas Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaMZ3OavrCA

However, it does prevent trans-cultural diffusion

European cultures can learn technologies from each other, though this only happens through contact